How to Recover Deleted Data from Hard Drive on Windows

Have you ever experienced a data loss and wondering how to recover your data ?. Data is important for any user and loss of your data could lead huge loss. This could be a great loss to the companies which have huge amount of data. Usually the data loss occurs when you storage goes bad. For home users most of the data is stored on the hard drive and if the hard drive crashes then the user could loose all the critical data.

How do i recover deleted data from my Hard disk ?

If you have deleted your data accidentally (even from the recycle bin) then you need not worry. Here is the software to recover deleted data from your hard drive. Wondershare data recovery tool lets you recover the deleted, lost, or formatted data from your computer and removable storage devices. It is efficient easy and fast. Wondershare data recovery software can recover over 550+ file formats including documents, photos, emails, and videos.

Recovery Modes in Wondershare Data Recovery Software

Wizard Recovery Mode :- This mode presents you a wizard which is quite easy to follow. Just follow the instructions and answer simple questions, then Wondershare Data Recovery will find your lost files immediately.

Lost File Recovery Mode :- Recover formatted and deleted files with their original file names and paths.

How to Recover Deleted Data from Hard Drive on Windows

Download the Wondershare data recovery software by clicking on this link. Double-click the setup file. On the setup screen click on Install.

On the next screen click on Start Now.

If you have purchased this software then click on Activate and enter the registration details.

Note – If you activate Free trial it has certain limitations. You can recover 100.00 MB data for free in trial version. You can search for lost items but you can recover only 100 MB of the total lost data. Where as the Full version lets you recover unlimited data. You can recover multiple files using registered software. This is applicable for both Windows and Mac version of Wondershare recovery software.

On the Welcome screen of Wondershare Data Recovery Wizard, click on Next.

If you are not sure what file type is to be recovered, select All File Types. Click Next.

If you know where was the file located last time before you lost that, then you could provide specific location. Else select the option I can’t remember. Click Next.

I would recommend to Enable Deep Scan option. This will scan your hard drive and recover the files even though the drive was formatted. This function will take more time as it tries it’s best to scan and recover all the deleted files. Click on Start.

In my case this software found 169902 files that were deleted from my hard drive. To recover your file, you have got options to search your file using the file type or extension. For example, in the below screenshot, I could recover my deleted file which was in .png format.

Right click on the file that you want to recover. Click on Recover Highlighted. Click Recover.

When you click Recover, the wizard asks you to choose a folder to place the recovered file. Choose a folder where you want to restore the file. Click Recover.

You can now see that Wondershare Data recovery software has successfully recovered my file.

What if I want to recover my deleted files from Mac ?

If you want to recover your deleted files from Mac, then you need not worry. Wondershare Data Recovery Software is available for both Windows and Mac OS. For recovering files on your Mac, click on the link which gives you cool instructions on how to recover deleted files on your Mac computer.

Conclusion – Wondershare data recovery software is really a good software when you want to recover your deleted files from your hard drive. The software installation is really easy and the options within the software are very easy for any user to understand and use the software. A full version will allow you recover unlimited data. You can recover multiple files using registered software.

I am Prajwal Desai and I have been working in the IT for over 8 years with a strong focus on Microsoft Server Technologies. For the last five years, as a System Administrator I have been working on Lync, SCCM, Vmware, VDI, Exchange, Windows Servers etc. I’m currently very interested in everything related to Azure, Configuration Manager, Lync, Windows Server and Exchange.